Autographic register



Dec. 28,1926.

1,611,921 H. H. KONERMAN El AL 'AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed April 26, 1924 2 Sheets-$heet 1 Z6 27 36 E6 27 as as is a! Dec. 28 1926. 1,611,921. H. H. KONERMAN ET AL AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER Filed April 26. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Dec. 28, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATE HARRY H. KONERMAN,

Pics.

OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, AND ROBERT CJLE IMBERGER AND JOHN E. EUTH, F CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE PANY, OF CINCINNATI,-OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GLOBE REGISTER COM- .AUTOGRABHIC 'REGISTER.

Application filed April 26, 1924. Serial No. 709,106.

This-invention relates to an autographic register which has been devised with an object in view of producing a register which contains a form printed record sheet or web, and in which improvedmeans are employed for aligning the superposed form printed sales tickets with the record sheet upon each operation of the register.

A further object "is to produce an improvedautographic register in which means for preventing the inadvertent withdrawal of the'form printed sheets have been provided and in which the register mechanism is automatically locked by the same means, to prevent operation of t e'register beyond that intended for the issuance of the filled in sales tickets and to secure the proper alignment of the form printed sheets upon the register platen.

-A further object is to produce a registerin which improved mechanism has been pro vided for the operation and coordination of the record sheet operating mechanism and' the sheet aligning mechanism.

These and other objects are attained in the autographic register described in the following specification and illustrated in the v accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig.1 is a side elevational sectional View ofa register embodying our invention, .the

side having been removed to show the position of the parts of the interior mechanism.

Fig.2 is a view of a portion of the mechanism disclosed in Fig. 1, showing the parts in different relative positions. Fig. 3 1s a front elevational view of on improved register, the front plate having been removed 150i disclose the interior mechanism. Q r

Fig. 4 is a fragmental side sectional view of the front end of our improved register,

taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3 and looking irrthe direction of the arrows.

Fig. 5 is a view similar-to Fig.4, but

" showing the parts of the register mechanism in the positions they occupy during certain .periods of the register operation.

Fig. 6 is a fragmental side sectional elevation of the front end of our improved .reg-

ister construction, taken on the hue 6-6 of I Fig. 3 and looking in the direction of the a detail of our invention.

Fig..11 is a fragmented sectional view of another detail of our invention.

Fig. 12 is a fragment'al of the reel 59 shownin Fig. 1.

Fig. 13 is a somewhat enlarged fragmental perspective view of the front end ofa register embodying our invention.

In the register embodying our invention the features to which particular attention will be drawn, are included in three por-- 8 but show-,

perspective view tions of theregister mechanism. We will describe these features carefully and separately after the following general description of the register mechanism and construction.

The register may be divided for purposes of description of its novel features, into an improved aligning mechanism, an improved record sheet operating mechanism, and an improved mechanism for locking the sheets of the register against inadvertent displacement or withdrawal thereof. These three mechanisms are housed within a suitable casing 13, together-with other features of our invention which have been made the subject of' a copending application for Letters Patent Serial No. 670,245, filed by us on October 23, 1923,. and entitled Auto graphic register. Within the'casing 13 suitable mounting I and 16 upon the sides 17 and 18 of the register, are provided for the spindles 19,

means, such as the rack 14, 1 35 generally to the draw back tendency of the of springs 26, 27 and 28 which are attached to the end of the rollers, together rollers 26,27 and 28in response to the action form printed paper webs pass and is housed provided by the raised portion of the register cover 36 which is hinged upon a "pin 37 at the rear of the register as is usual, an opening 38 being provided in the register cover so that the printed form on the paper web may be filled in. The forward end of the cover is locked by hooks 39 as is usual in register construction. The. ends of roller 32-have bearing in the upper ends of vertically reciprocable arms 40 and 41 which are held or urged yieldingly in a downward direction by springs 42 and 43 connected to the lower ends of the arms and to the bottom44 of the register. The shaft 45 of the roller 32 is with a pinion 46 which meshes with a gear 47 on the shaft 48 which carries roller 33 with which roller 32 cooperates. Shaft 48 is journalled in the sides 17 and 18 of the register casing and terminates beyond side 18 ina crank 49 which is provided with an operating handle 50. Thus when crank 49 is operated, the gear 47 will drive pinion 46 and thereby rotate roller 32 together-w1th roller 33.,

Roller 33 is provided with a notch 51 in,-

its rim so as to free the engagement of roller 32 therewith when the rollers are rotated, as has been set forth in the copendlng application to which we have referred. In

order that there can be no inadvertent with- 'drawal of the superposed webs or sheets of printed forms, as might occur were the user of'the register to 'pull outwardly upon the 4 projecting ends of the-websduring the tearing of the tickets from the web after the feeding rollers are operated to brlng 1 the notch of the roller 33 into registration with roller 32 preparatory to the aligning ope 'ra-. tron, we have provided a device forlockmg the webs against withdrawal afterthe aligning operation has been completed. The description of the device for and manner of accomplishing the aligning operationwill be reserved fordescription after completion of the description of the locking. device now in hand. Within the crank 49 ad acent'to the v handle 50 we have provided a'plunger 52 which is urged outwardly by a spring 53 Y which is concealed within the space containing the plunger. This plunger is adapted to engage the outwardly projecting end of a lever 54 which is pivoted at a point 55 in side the register casing-and between the ends of the lever, the opposite or inner end of the lever being connected with a spring 56 which retains the lever in its normal position shown in Fig. 13 with the outwardly projecting end of the lever in engagement with the up per end of a slot 57 through which the outwardly projecting end of the lever operates when it is pressed downwardly by the thumb key 58 with which the lever is provided.

The position of the crank 49 and its handle 50, as shown in Fig. 8 corresponds to the positions of the attached partsas shown in Fig. 1, and the position of the crank and handle when they are as shown 'in Fig. 9, corresponds tothepositions of the cooperating parts when they are as shown in Fig. 10.

When in the positions shown in Figs. 9 and r 10 the web locking device we have just described is'i-n web locking position, and when the key 58 is pressed downwardly to release the crank, the register may be operated; all

of which operation will be described in detail hereinafter.

The second of the three features of novelty claimed herein, now willbe described as to record sheet reel 59. This reel is mounted removably by being mounted in a stationary bearing 1n side 17 of the casing and in a movable hearing 60 in s de 18 of the casing.

Mounted in the extreme Bearing 60 is provided with a spring 61,

see Fig. 11, which, being located within the bearing cylinder 62 normally holds bearing 60 toward the shaft 63 of the reel 59, a knob 64 on the spindle 65 of bearing 6(), permitting the retraction of the bearing against;

the pressure of sprin'g 61' so that the roll may bere'moved. A latch 6O which engages a groove 60 in bearing 60, locks the bearing in reel-holding position,-bu t is lifted from the groove when it is desired to release the reel. The opposite end of reel 59 is provided with an attached gear 66. This gear'meshes with a somewhat larger intermediate gear 67 which is journaled on side 17, and the intermediate gear in turn meshes with a still larger gear 68 which is loosely mounted on shaft .48 of'the feed roller 33. In order that gear 68 may be driven upon rotation of crank 49. we have provided a friction drive device which consists of a disc-69 which is splined to shaft 48 and'is pressed toward ear 68 by a spring 70, fibre friction discs 51 being located between gear 68 and. disc' 69 in order that frictional contact between" the disc 69 and gear 68 may be suffiient to 48 and crank 49.

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sheet, n1a be attached to the reel 5950 as to wind the sheet thereon as the register is operated, we have provided a groove 72 in the reel, in which the end of the paper strip or web is pressed and held by a presser bar 73 which is pivoted in the ends of the reeh The rate of winding the web upon reel 59 with relation to the I rate with which the paper webs are fed from between the rollers 32 and 33, is such that the paper of the lower web or record strip 74 is maintained taut enough to the friction discs 71 permitting of slippage between them so that thegear 68 will not rotate as rapidly as does the driving shaft This slipping action takes place to an increasing extent as the accumulation of wound up paper on the reel 59 'in- "We will now describe in detail as to certain features, the means by which the superposed record strip 74, duplicate copy 7 5 and original copy 76 are aligned periodically so as to bring their printed forms into correct registration with one another. As in all autographic registers the supply of paper used therein is perforated at regular intervals-77, (see Fig. 13) corresponding to the length. of. the forms which are printed on the webs, such perforations being in the same position relatively to the printed forms, on each of the superposed sheets. In order to secure alignment of these printed forms, the perforations 77 are utilized by causing them to be brought into registration with and then to be forced over or upon the double aligning hooks 7 8 and 7 9 secured to a portion 80 of the platen 34 of the register casing.

fore, in order to secure alignment of these several superposed webs of paper it is necessary to provide means'for aligning the webs,"

both above and below the portion 80 of the platen, so that the record sheet as well as the duplicate and'original copies may be is operatedto advance aligned simultaneously. we have provided the hooks 78 and 79 which are located on portion 80 of the platen. Each of these hooks 'is formed with its hook-like end extending toward the forward end of the register, the rear being shaped to permit the webs'or i For this purpose double alignment sheets tov ride up-over them as the re ister the sheets. the register construction disclosed. inthe copendingapplication to which we have referred above, the draw back rollers 26, 27 and 28 are arranged to impart to the platen It will be seen that a slot 81 has been provided between platen 34 and its are permitted to engage and p 1 the roller 7 supported portions .of the superposed websminutely in the copending application to which rcference has been made. However,

unl ess the record sheet is relieved in some wind it upon reel 59 compactly,

-pose we have provided the face of disc 69 witha cam 83 which has one end 84 curved and the other end 85 is provided with an abrupt step-off 86. This cam is adapted to cooperate with a pawl 87 which has a spring 88 adapted tohold it toward and into en gagement with either gear 68 :or cam 83.

For cooperation with the cam the pawl is provided with a finger" 89 and for cooperation with the gear it is provided with a detent 90 the" latter being shaped to engage the gear between adjacent teeththereo'f and the former having its end shaped to ride up and over the curved end 84 the surface of cam 83 until step-ofi' 86 is reached, at which time a shoulder 91' on the pawl will permit it to drop with its detent betweenadjacentteeth of gear 68, thereby arresting its movement and causing reel 59 to cease operation by reason of the action of friction discs? 1. The operation of this 'portion of the-register mechanism willbe described fully in the detailed description of the operation of the register,'which will now follow.

I .Assuming'that the person who is to use the register has completed the notations which he desires to make upon the superposed form printed sheets lying upon the platen 34 of the register, his next operation will be to place the thumb of his left hand upon the thumb key 58 of-the-handledocking lever 54 while at the same time grasping the-"handle upon the key 58 and permit the crank 49 to be rotated. The first rotation-of crank 49 will cause roller 33 to be rotated from the position shown in Fig. 10 to that shown in this initial partial rotation the cam 83 upon disc 69 will tion shown in Fig. 4 to that shown in Fig. 5, the former position corresponding to that ofthe roller 33 as shown in Fig. 10 and the latter position corresponding to that of as shown in Fig. 2. Two things have happened during this partialirotation.

so as to rest upon 50. Y A pressure downwardly will release the plunger 52 Fig. 2. pDuring have been rotated'from the posiv vanced far enough to 'lift detent 90 from First the rotation of the cam and roller has caused the feeding of the superposed paper webs to be started by bringing the feeding surface of roller 33 into position to press the webs against the surface of upper feeding roller 32 and, secondly, cam 83 has adbetween the teeth of gear 68 by reason of finger 89-having been lifted to ride upon the surface of the cam. Thus, simultaneously with the feeding of the webs, the windmg up of the record sheet upon roll 59 has also been started.

Continued rotation of the crank in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 13-

will cause gears 66, 67 and 68 to rotate reel 59 much more rapidly than the webs are fed from between rollers 32 and 33, thus taking up any slack which may exist in the record sheet between reel 59 and rollers 32 and 33. This is compensated by the slippage permitted between the friction discs 71. It will be observed that the record sheet passes through an opening 92 in the platen to a position within the register casing and over the inner downwardly projecting aligning hooks 79 which are located in the portion of the platen which extends forwardly of the opening 92.. The duplicate copy and original copy strips are passed over the platen a nd to the outside of the casing after having passed from between rollers 32 and 33 and over the upwardly projecting hooks 78 which are located immediately above and in alignment with hooks 79. In this passage of the respective sheets over thehooks 78 and 79 as above described, the shape of the sheets, when a transverse section is taken of platen in order to be wound upon the record reel 59, we have devised the inverted hooks 79 which will permit of alignment of the record sheet -forms simultaneously with'the alignment of the duplicate copy and original copy forms. Wehave found that, were we to draw the record sheet over the upwardly projecting hooks 78 and then downwardly upon the record reel, the ends of the hooks would mar the paper or perhaps tear it. Hence we have provided for the simultaneous fiexure of the record web reversely to the duplicate copy and original copy webs.

The means whereby the alignment of the superposed printed forms of the sheets or webs is accomplished, is, as we have said above, identical-with the means We haveeprovided in the copending application to which we have referred, and the webs are each provided, as in the construction disclosed in the copending application, with apertures which are regularly spaced in uniformity with the spaced positions of the printed forms on the webs. Thus, as the crank 49 is rotated, the raised portion of roller 33, in cooperation with roller 32, will cause the superposed webs 74:, 75 and 76 to be fed from the'register until the, end of the raised portion of roller 33 is reached. The draw back rollers 26, 27 and 28 will move forward yieldingly to release the sheets from the shutters 29, 30 and 31 so as to allow the webs to be drawn from the supply rolls 2 2, 23 and 24. This action continues until the sheets are released by the passage of the 'raised portion of roller 33 from-roller 32.

Just previous to this the rounded end 84 of cam 83 will have passed beyond the finger 89, thus allowing detent 90 to drop into engagement with the teetli of gear 68. This stops the rotation of feed reel 59 and permits the formation of a slight slackness in record web 74 as the sheets continue to be advanced slightly further until rollers 32 and 33 release them. This slack condition of the record sheet is produced so that retrograde movement of the sheets during the aligning operation will not be hampered.

During the formation of the slack in the record sheet the apertures 77 in the superposed sheets will have been brought intoengagement with the hooks 78 and 79, and, because the webs .have been flexed transversely and held in flexed condition during passage of the sheets over the hooks, the sheets will be permitted to straighten out, with the hooks projecting through the apertures. The instant the roller 33 releases the webs, the draw back rollers 26, 27 and 28 under tension of springs 26, 27 and 28*"will move over the shutters and grip the paper coming from the supply rolls, thereby acting.en-' tirely upon the freeplaten supported portions of the web. These portions will be drawn back quickly and because the hooks 78 and 79 extend through their apertures, the printed forms on the platen supported record sheet, duplicate and original copies will be aligned. The record sheet'will have been wound tightly upon the reel 59 and the duplicate and original copies will have been projected beyond the tearing-edge of the register cover 36.. In the meantime the operator of the register will have rotated handle 49 until its plunger 52 has been fully compressed to bring the crank into engagement with lever 54 as shown in Fig. 8. The position of'the roller 33 immediately'upon completion of this operation is as shown in F ig.- 1, in which the sheets are still free. However, immediately upon release of the handle, the plunger 52 will cause a slight revents inadvertent verse movement of the roller 33 and bring it to the sheet gripping position shown in Fig. 10, because plunger52 hase been forced by spring 53 to i move handle 49 backwardly slightly as shown in Fig. 49. This then preforward movement of the sheets when the duplicate and original copies are grasped and torn off over the-tear ing edge, thus locking the sheets against displacement from aligned position. The reg-' ister is now in condition for a repetition of the operation above described.

laps of paper are \Vhen it is necessary to review or check up the items which have beenrecordcd upon the record sheet, it is but. necessary to open the hinged .front of the register casing and to pull outwardly upon knob 64 to remove bearing from the spindle 63 of reel 59, the reel thus being freed from support so that it may be taken from the casing. The web 74 is torn off close to the reel. Then the roll of paper is removed from the reel by grasping it and rotating the reel in the direction opposite to the arrow in Fig. 12. This causes bar 73 to free the paper loop from groove 72 of the reel and permit the reel to be slipped from the rolled up paper. The end of the paper web of the record sheet of the register is now slipped beneath the bar 73 as shown 'in Fig. 12, and, after a few wound upon the reel, it is replaced within the casing and mounted upon its bearings with the gear 66 thereof meshing with the gear 67. Thus the register is again placed in condition for further operation.

Having thus we claim is r 1. In an autographic register for use with perforated webs, having a platen, and a web feeding mechanism for drawing the webs over the platen, a registering device prodescribed our invention what jecting above and below the platen, certain I of the perforated webs passing above and perforations registered with having their projectingportion of the regthe upwardly istering device, and certain of the perforated webs passing beneath and having their perdownwardly portion of the registering device,

projecting 0th of said upwardly and downwardly projecting portions of the registering device being adapted to enter theweb perforations, said feeding mechanism imparting. a flexure to the web in an upward direction in passing over the upwardly projecting portion of the registering device, and in a downward. direction in passing over the downwardly projecting portion of the registering device during the operation of the feeding mechanism, whereby springlike action of the web is created so that the perforations will be brought into engagement with the registering device lmmedlately upon the perforations having been brought into registration therewith. 7

2. In an autographicregister for use with perforated webs, having a platen, 'a web feeding mechanism for drawing the webs over the platen, and a web tensioning mech anism imparting to the webs a tendency to resist feeding movement of the feeding mechanism and to draw the webs in a direction contrary to the direction of web feed when the feeding mechanism is released, a registering device projecting above and below the platen,.certain of the perforated webs passing above and having their perforations registered with the upwardly projecting portion of the registering device, and certain of the perforated webs passing beneath and having their perforations registered with the downwardly projecting portion of the. registering device, both of said upwardly-and downwardly projecting portions of the registering device being adapted to enter the web perforations, said'feeding 3. In an autographic register having a platen adapted to receive a series of perf0- rated webs, and cooperating rollers adapted to feed the webs a predetermined amount relatively to the platen, said rollers having device during the operaa web contacting surfaces passing out of engagement with each other after the webs have been fed a predetermined amount, stationary aligning hooks projecting above and below the platen, certain of said webs passing above the hooks and one 'of said webspassing beneath the hooks, said feed rollers'imparting an upward fiexure to the web passing over the hooks and a downward fiexure to the web passing bcneath the hooks, whereby the perforations of the webs will be engaged with the hooks upon resumptlon of the webs to normal flattened condition.

.45. In an autographic register having a platen adapted to receive a series of, perforated Webs, cooperating rollers for feeding the webs a predetermined amount relatively to the'platen, said rollers having web contacting surfaces passing out of engagement with each other after the webs have been fed a predetermined amount, and means adapted to impart retrograde movement to the wcbs after passage of the web contacting surfaces from engagement with the webs,

stationary aligning hooks projecting above and below the platen, certain of the webs passing above the hooks'and certain of the webs passing beneath the hooks, one of said feed rollers imparting an upward flexure to the web passing over the hooks and a downward flexure to the web passing beneath the hooks, whereby the perforations of the webs will be engaged with the hooks-upon resumption" of the webs to normal flattened condition and during retrograde movement thereof.

5. In an autographic register for use with a series of perforated webs, having a feeding means comprising a mutilated drive roller and a cooperating pressure roller, the mutilated portion of the drive roller being adapted to relax the pressure of the pressure roller, and a web tensioning device consisting of spring retracted rollers adapted to effect a retrograde motion of the webs, a

double ended Web aligning hook adapted to receive the web perforatlons of certain of the webs over one end of the hook responsive to action of the tensioning device which simultaneously therewith will place the web perforations of the remaining webs over the opposite end of the hook substant ally simultaneously with pressure relaxation of the feeding means.

6. In an autographic register, having pan of feeding rollers held toward each other for feeding a series of superposed perforated Webs between them, said rollers having means adapted to create a spaced position thereof relatively to one another, and means consisting of spring retracted rollers adapted to create a retrograde movement of the webs substantially simultaneously with the occurrence of the spaced position of the rollers relatively stationary double ended aligning hooks adjacent to the rollers, adapted to create a condition of flexure of certain of the webs in one direction and of others of the webs in an opposite direction during feeding movement thereof between perforations therein, whereby engagementof the perforations with the ends of the aligning hooks will permit the webs to'straighten out upon the hooks, said roller spacing means being arranged for relaxing the webs substantially simultaneously with engagement of the web perforations with the ends of the aligning hooks, action of said means for creating retrograde movement being substantially simultaneous with the occurrence of the engagement of the perforations with the ends of the hooks.

7 In an autographic register for use with perforated webs, having a feeding means comprising a mutilated drive roller and a "co; operating pressure roller, the mutilated portion of the drive roller being adapted to relax the pressure of the pressure roller, and web retracting means consisting of pringretracted rollers, a double ended web aligning hook, said web retracting means being adapted to effect the placing of the perforations of certain of the webs over one end of the aligning hook and simultaneously therewith to effect the placing of the perforations of the remaining webs over the opposite end of the web aligning hook substantially simultaneously with the pressure relaxation of the feeding means.

8. In an autographic register having a platen for paper Webs, means for feeding the webs relatively to the platen, consisting of a pressure roller and a mutilated roller adapted to engage the webs at all times except when the mutilated portion of said roller is brought to register with the webs, and means adapted to elfect retrograde movement of the webs substantially simultaneously with registration of the mutilated portion of the mutilated feed roller with the webs, a

double ended adjusting hook for adjusting the position of a portion'of each of certain of the webs upon one end of the hook and for adjusting the position of a portion, of the other webs upon the opposite end of the hook, responsive to action of said retrograde movement means thereon, whereby all the webs will be adjusted relatively to each other and the platen. i

9. In an -autographic register having a platen for paper webs, means for feeding the webs relatively to the,platen, comprising'a pressure roller and a mutilated roller adapted to engage the webs atall times ex: cept when the mutilated portion of said roller'is brought to register with the1webs,.and

means adapted to effect a retrograde movement of the webs substantially simultaneously with registration of the mutilated portion of the mutilated feed roller with the webs, a double ended adjusting hook having one end extending above the platen, the opposite end extending below the platen, said first mentioned end of the adjusting hook being arranged to adjust the position of a portion. of each of the webs passing in retrograde movement over the upwardly extending end of the adjusting hook responsive to action of said means, the lower end of the adjusting hook being adapted to adjust the position of a portion of each of the webs passing in retrograde movement over the downwardly extending end of the adjusting hook responsive to action of said means, whereby all the webs will be adjusted relatively to the platen over which they pass.

10. In an autographic register having a platen for supporting paper webs, means for feeding the webs relatively to the platen, and means located beneath the platen for storing up the second mentioned web, a double ended adjusting hook for adjusting the position of a portion of certain of the webs relatively to the platen upon one end of the hook and for adjusting the position of a portion of the remaining of the webs upon the other end of the hook, the. first mentioned webs which are adjustedby the first mentioned end of the hook beingarranged for passage beyond the register during the "operation thereof, and the'second mentioned of .the webs which are adjusted by the sec-- ond mentioned end of the hook, being arranged for passage beneath the platen of the registering device to be stored up by said storing means.

11, In an autographic register having a frame, a platen supported by the frame for receiving a series of webs in superposed arrangement and over which the webs are drawn, the webs each having apertures spaced longitudinally and crosswise of the web, and web flexing means adapted to flex the webs during movement thereof from one set of apertures to the next longitudinally spaced set of apertures, stationary hooks in spaced relation laterally of the platen, extending above the platen and extending be low the platen and adapted to engage through registering apertures of the web,

certain of the webs being arranged to pass over and in engagement with the upwardly extending portions of the hooks and certain others of the webs being. arranged to pass over and in engagement with the,down-.

wardly extendug' portion of the hooks, the springlike tendency created by the fiex'ure of the webs pressing them againstthe hooks and causing them to bring their apertures 7 over the hooks when brought into registra tion therewith aligned and movement thereof stopped,

12. In an autographic register having a frame, a platen supported by the frame for receiving. a series of webs in superposed arrangement and over which the webs are spaced "set of apertures,

drawn, the webs each "having apertures.

webs and to stop movement thereof, the websv passin over the upwardly extending portions bf the hooks being arranged to be projected beyond the, registering frame and a the webs passing in relation to the downwardly extending portions of the hooks bemg arranged for passage from above the platenand into the register frame for storage beneath the platen. y

13. In an autographic registerhavinga casing, a platen supported by the casing,

' adapted whereby the webs will be:

and adapted to ena source of web supply located within the casing, a web feeding mechanism located adjacent to the source of supply for drawing the webs over the platen, a web receiving device located adjacent to the feedmechanism, and means for operating the receiving device from and simultaneously with the operation of the feeding 1116011".

amsm, a web registering hook in cooperation with the feeding mechanism and extending wardly extending portion of the hook being arranged for passage of certain of the webs over it and beyond the registerand the downwardly extending portion of the detent being arranged for passage of others of the webs over it and into the. casing tion by the receiving device; I

14. In an autographic register for use v with perforated webs and having a feeding means comprising a mutilated drive roller and a cooperating pressure roller between which the webs are passed as the rollers are rotated, the mutilated portion of the drive roller being adapted to relaxthe pressure above and below the platen, the upfor recepof the pressure roller upon the webs, a web tensioningdevice adapted to efiec't a retrograde motion of" the Webs after relaxation ofthe pressure roller and -'a mechanism to create a restricted retrograde motion of the feedingmeans upon comple-' tion of the operationthereof and, after retrograde motion of the webs has taken place, whereby the unrnutilat'ed portion ,of the drive roller will-be brought into engage; ment with the pressure roller to lock the webs against inadvertent withdrawal'f'rom web aligning hook to receive the register, the perforations of the webs to place the web perforations over the hook and into taut engagement therewith substantially simultaneously the feeding means.

15. In an jautographic register for use with perforated webs, having-a feeding megns comprising a mutilated drive rbller an which thewebs are passed asthe rollers are rotated, the mutilated port-ion of/the drive roller being adap'tedto release the pressure of the pressure roller 'upon the: webs, a

with pressure relaxation of a cooperating pressure roller between v platen adapted to receive the webs, a web tensioning device adapted to gradehaotion of the webs of said feeding means, tively connected with upon relaxation and a spring operathe feeding means adapted to create limited retrograde motion ofthe drive roller to bring the unmutilated web feeding surface thereof into coopera tive relation with the pressure roller, whereby the webs between the rollers will be maintained in normal locked condition against inadvertent withdrawal thereof from the register, a double ended webaligning hook extending above andbelow the platen, the upwardly extending portion of the aligning hook being adapted to receive the apertures of certain of the Webs and the downwardly extending portion of the'aligning hook being adapted to receive the remaining of the webs, said tensioning device being adapted to place the. Web perforations over and to draw them taut against the ends of the-hook and upon the platen substantially simultaneously with pressure relaxation of the l feeding means. I

In testimony whereof We have hereunto afiixed our signatures.

HARRY H. .KONERMAN. ROBERT C. LEIMBERGER.

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